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This patches fixes the LBR kernel crashes on Intel Atom. The kernel was assuming that if the CPU supports 64-bit format LBR, then it has an LBR_SELECT MSR. Atom uses 64-bit LBR format but does not have LBR_SELECT. That was causing NULL pointer dereferences in a couple of places. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Fixes: 96f3eda67fcf ("perf/x86/intel: Fix static checker warning in lbr enable") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449182000-31524-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>